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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 5 Oktober 2005 / Time Line October 5, 2005
Version 3.54. Oktober 2005, 6. Oktober 2005
10/05/2005
Den amerikanske
præst, atompacifist og antikrigsmodstander Philip Berrigan
fødes, 1923.
10/05/2005
UN EXPERTS GIVE MIXED SCORECARD TO EFFORTS TO IMPROVE
PEACEKEEPING
New York, Oct 5 2005 8:00PM
UN News Centre at http://www.un.org/news
Five years after a high-level panel made recommendations on how to
improve peacekeeping, United Nations experts turned in a mixed
scorecard on the results of the measures, which ranged from
deploying missions to head off conflicts to maintaining trainers
ready to start building capacity at a week's notice.
Under-Secretary-General Lakhdar Brahimi, who chaired the panel in
2000, said it was an important change that the UN Secretariat was
telling the Security Council what it needed to know, rather than
what governments wanted to hear.
At the same time, he called for more improvements in the area of
conflict prevention.
The "Brahimi report" had supported Mr. Annan's more frequent use of
fact-finding missions to volatile areas to head off strife...
10/05/2005
CONTRACTS from the United States Department of Defense
iGov Technologies, Inc. of McLean, Virginia is being awarded an
Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with a
maximum ordering amount of $300,000,000.00. This IDIQ contract will
provide engineering, procurement, integration, test, fielding and
training, support, and life cycle sustainment of Tactical Local
Area Network (TACLAN) related equipment in support of U.S. Special
Operations Command, Program Manager - Special Operations Forces
Digital Environment (PM-SDE). The work will be performed in Tampa,
Fla., and orders, which may be firm-fixed price, cost-plus fixed
fee or time and material, may be placed for five years from date of
award of the contract. Available contract funds will not expire as
the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was awarded
through a Small Business Set-Aside competitive procurement. The
contract number is H92222-05-D-0017.
10/05/2005
Is the US Poised For Intervention?
Fears Mount As Us Opens New Military Installation In Paraguay
by Benjamin Dangl
Excalibur -- the York University Newspaper
http://tinyurl.com/8zpp2
Wednesday, October 5, 2005 -- Controversy is raging in Paraguay,
where the US military is conducting secretive operations.
Five hundred US troops arrived in the country on July 1, 2005 with
planes, weapons and ammunition.
Eyewitness reports prove that an air base exists in Mariscal
Estigarribia, Paraguay, which is 200 kilometers from its border
with Bolivia, and may be utilized by the US military.
Officials in Paraguay claim the military operations are routine
humanitarian efforts, and deny that any plans are underway for a US
base. Yet human rights groups in the area are deeply worried.
White House officials are using rhetoric about terrorist threats in
the tri-border region (where Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina meet)
in order to build their case for military operations, which are in
many ways reminiscent of the buildup to the invasion of Iraq.
The tri-border area is home to the Guarani Aquifer, one of the
world's largest reserves of water. Near the Estigarribia airbase
are Bolivia's natural gas reserves, the second largest in Latin
America. Political analysts believe US operations in Paraguay are
part of a preventative war to control these natural resources and
suppress social uprisings in Bolivia.
Argentinian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel
commented on the situation in Paraguay and warned, "Once the United
States arrives, it takes a long time to leave. And that really
frightens me."
The Estigarribia airbase was constructed in the 1980s for US
technicians hired by the Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner,
and is capable of housing 16,000 troops. A journalist writing for
the Argentinian newspaper, Clarin, recently visited the base and
reported it to be in perfect condition, capable of handling large
military planes. It's oversized for the Paraguayan air force, which
only has a handful of small aircraft.
The base has an enormous radar system, huge hangars, and an air
traffic control tower. The air strip itself is larger than the one
at the international airport in Asuncion, the Paraguayan capital.
Near the base is a military camp which has recently grown in
size.
"Estigarribia is ideal because it is operable throughout the year
... I am sure that the US presence will increase," said Paraguayan
defense analyst Horacio Galeano Perrone.
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